Low completion rates amongst students from Black working-class backgrounds remain a persistent challenge to post-apartheid university transformation in South Africa. Notions of universities as colour-blind, meritocratic, and post-racial have developed around a deficit and victim-blaming majoritarian narrative that individualises educational…

Research indicates that white middle-class families' engagement with urban schools in gentrifying localities is often characterised by strategies of dominance and control, which support claims of belonging and identity, as well as securing educational advantage for their children. This is referred as 'class colonisation' or 'school…

BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS ARE GIVEN OF PROGRAMS FOR CULTURALLY DEPRIVED IN THE COMMUNITIES OF BEDFORD, GREENBURG, KINGSTON, AND OPPENHEIM-EPHRATAH. IN THE FIRST THREE, SPECIAL PROGRAMS ARE BENEFITING ELEMENTARY GRADE PUPILS IN MIDDLE-CLASS COMMUNITIES. IN THE FOURTH, A RURAL COMMUNITY, ABOVE AVERAGE STUDENTS WITH LOW READING LEVELS ARE SELECTED FOR AN…

Reviews implications of the "deficit model" and the "difference model" for the education of minority groups. Discusses how compensatory and higher education programs for Blacks have subscribed to the deficit hypothesis by attempting to make Black students adopt white middle class traits. (GC)

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH GENERALIZES TOO FREELY ABOUT THE EFFECT OF LOWER-CLASS CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS SCHOOL ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD. IF INSTEAD EDUCATORS CONSIDERED THE RANGES AND VARIATIONS OF EACH OF THESE INFLUENCES, AND THE VARIABLES ACCOUNTING FOR THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD'S ACADEMIC SUCCESS…

FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE TESTING OF MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN ARE PRESENTED. THE CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTS OF MENTAL TESTING ARE TOO OFTEN DEVELOPED FOR THE INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL WAYS OF MIDDLE-CLASS CHILDREN. AS A RESULT MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN ARE EXCLUDED FROM OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAINING BECAUSE OF "CULTURAL DEPRIVATION." THE GUIDE…

The last of a series of teacher education units discusses techniques for teaching reading and writing to culturally disadvantaged students. The poor reading ability of such students is related to their cultural backgrounds which prepared them inadequately for reading instruction in a middle-class oriented curriculum. Therefore, remedial…

IT HAS BEEN HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE ADOPTION OF THE LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUBCULTURE OTHER THAN A CHILD'S OWN IS A VALID INDICATION OF THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE CHILD HAS BECOME SOCIALIZED INTO THAT SUBCULTURE. TO EXAMINE THIS HYPOTHESIS, RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LINGUISTIC HABITS AND ATTITUDE…

THE ASSUMPTIONS WHICH FORM THE BASIS OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY ARE EXAMINED AND THE ADAPTATIONS OF CLINICAL GROUPS IN ASSISTING SOCIALLY DEPRIVED YOUTH (SDY) TO LEAD SATISFYING AND CONSTRUCTIVE LIVES ARE CONSIDERED. THE ACCEPTED CLINICAL MODEL HOLDS THAT DISTORTIONS OF CHARACTER STRUCTURE CAUSED BY UNFAVORABLE DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS CAN ONLY BE…

The initial part of this paper summarizes the bases for the assertion that the most immediate, overwhelming, and stubborn obstacles to achieving quality and equality in education lie as much in the character and way of life of the American Negro as in the indifference and hostility of the white community toward blacks. A discussion of prenatal…

In a review of historical efforts to improve the condition of the poor by education, it is noted that these attempts failed to lessen the problems of poverty. In the past the capitalist factory system demanded a cheap labor supply and therefore education was viewed only as a necessary vocational preparation. The contemporary issues of poverty and…

A study of Spanish American and Anglo American culture value concepts sought to determine (through the use of a teacher awareness scale) the degree to which teachers were aware of cultural differences, and (through a student acculturation questionnaire) to determine the extent of acceptance by Spanish American students of Anglo American values.…